Tajik (a.k.a. Galcha) is a variety of Persian spoken
in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine and Afghanistan by about 4.4 million people.
The Persian language in this region was renamed Tajik by Stalin in 1932
in order to distance Persian speakers in Central Asia from Persian
speakers in Iran.

Before 1928, Tajik was written with a version of the Perso-Arabic
script, then with the Latin alphabet between 1928 to 1940, then with a modified
version of the Cyrillic alphabet thereafter. In 1989, the Tajik government
passed a law calling for the reintroduction of the Arabic alphabet. There are
also some people in favour of switching to the Latin alphabet.

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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are
endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a
spirit of brotherhood.(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)